Headsup: new soname changing ImageMagick heading for F-10

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le lundi 28 avril 2008 à 15:34 +0200, Hans de Goede a écrit :
> Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>>> "HdG" == Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> writes:
> > 
> > HdG> I've recently become a co-maintainer of ImageMagick and after
> > HdG> this new build hits rawhide, the open bug count on ImageMagick
> > HdG> drops from 24 to 1 (a switch to NSS as cryptolib bug).
> > 
> > Just curious; will this new version allow us to do some basic
> > splitting so that packages like Mediawiki won't depend on X libraries?
> > Currently the console applications like convert are linked against X.
> > 
> 
> And here is the answer from upstream:
> 
> "ImageMagick permits rendering text onto an image with X11 fonts."
> 
> Which explains the X11 dependencies.

yuk

Soon Imagemagick will have few core X11 fonts to render from.
This "feature" should be killed, or moved to fontconfig (which does not
require X BTW)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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